The riff given in the 5/7th position seems a little out of character for Gerry. He seems to me to tend to play as simply as possible (usually near the open position....imagine he's playing bluegrass on an electric guitar...I'm sure that's how HE thought of it...most bluegrass is based out of open position chords).

The way I figured out the main line for Bird Song was as follows (standard tuning).

I think the only the thing you might be off on is how (J)erry spells his name.

As I think I said in that tab, I always play it in C as it is on the Garcia LP, and I posted that after numerous requests to transcribe it to E. What I posted was actually submitted by someone else, I just checked it and, as you say, note-wise, it is correct.

I can top it. I had that mirrory silver and black JG sticker on my guitar case back in college, and one night while hanging out with my gal I looked at it and said, "you gotta love Marley." She looked at me all puzzled and somewhat appalled. I looked back at the sticker which had adorned my case for well over a year, shook my head, and realized it was Jerry. For some reason I initially thought it was BOB M and everytime I looked at it, that is what I saw. The gal moved on to someone who knew their stickers. Oh well.